Twenty-sixth of the lunar month.

It is advisable to travel, get married, get engaged, sign a contract, start a business, pray for blessings, and sacrifice.

Today is the first day of the bookstore's opening, and Shen Liang must be there.

He changed into plain clothes, not like he used to wear Fuwa, in case there is a good person who secretly reports to Jia Zheng, it is estimated that his great cause of going out will be ruined.

As soon as I got out of the yard, I saw the bright and moving Xue Baochai, standing there pretty.

She was wearing a honey-colored cotton jacket, a rose and purple two-color gold and silver mouse shoulder gown, and a green and yellow silk cotton skirt.

With the black and oily Su'er on his head, revealing his fair and delicate long neck, Shen Liang couldn't take his eyes off it.

It's just that Xue Baochai didn't come alone, and there was an acquaintance standing behind her - Xue Pan.

Xue Pan's appearance is also good, but his head is quite big, and he is a little out of proportion.

Seeing Shen Liang go out, Xue Pan said with a smile: "Brother Bao, I haven't seen you for a long time, if you don't go to the school these days, you will have a lot less fun, and they will talk about you if they love you." ”

As soon as Xue Pan spoke, Xue Baochai was speechless.

Her brother, who doesn't learn and has no skills, doesn't expect him to be more productive, but he didn't expect to come to Shenjing City from Jinling, the good ones didn't learn, and the bad ones slipped away, and those second-rate people in Jiafu stirred up chrysanthemums all over the mountain.

Shen Liang said lightly: "It turned out to be Cousin Xue, I was also looking for you, what is there to play in the school, but they are just some naughty children who can't grow up, if you want to play, let's go outside to play." ”

Xue Pan was overjoyed when he heard this, at his age, his father couldn't tie it and his mother couldn't control it, so he couldn't wait to put two wings on his body and not go home all day.

Xue Pan came up and took Shen Liang's hand, as if he had found the organization: "Brother Bao, this can be said to my brother's heart, last night I heard my sister say that you want to find me a master of Laoshizi, and I am not happy, it turns out that you have been prepared, let's go, let's go now!" ”

Shen Liang quietly pulled out his hand and said with a smile: "Cousin Xue Shao'an is not impatient, let me say something considerate to my sister." ”

Xue Pan's two big eyes turned around the two of them, and he smiled obscenely: "I understand!" I know! Brother Bao and sister, you talk slowly, and I'll wait for you outside. ”

Xue Baochai said: "Baoyu, my brother will be handed over to you, if you don't learn well, my mother and I will ask you, don't blame me when the time comes!" ”

I don't know why, the boy in front of me is so much younger than himself and his brother, but he can't treat him as a child.

Especially just now, he made his brother happy with his words, and Xue Baochai felt that Shen Liang was unfathomable.

Shen nodded and said: "Sister Bao, don't worry, Brother Pan will be handed over to me, but this apprenticeship will inevitably have to suffer some hardships, if Brother Pan complains, you must keep a straight face, you can't give up halfway, otherwise you can only suffer in the future." ”

Xue Baochai naturally understood the truth, and said: "My province, don't worry, this time I will definitely kill my brother's character, and I can't let him continue to mess around like this again." ”

……

Lao Mo's eyes are red, and the two brothers, Gao Qiqiang and Gao Qisheng, also have a pair of big panda eyes.

The three of them didn't sleep all night last night and stayed up all night.

Shen Liang slept soundly last night, and he didn't even take advantage of the opportunity to increase proficiency with Qingwen, in order to be able to start his first industry in the new world with full energy.

"Old Mo, how many copies were printed last night?"

Lao Mo yawned and pointed to the room behind him: "Second master, it's all there, a thousand volumes." ”

Shen Liang walked into the room and saw that a thousand books were neatly piled there, and the air was still filled with the aroma of ink.

Shen Liang picked up a book casually, the paper was dense, the handwriting was clear, and most importantly, there were punctuation marks on each page of these pages.

Looking at these thousand copies of "Journey to the West", Shen Liang's eyes were shining!

This is not a book, this is a silver ticket, a silver ticket with a golden light!

Xue Pan thought that Shen Liang would take him to the theater and overpass, but who knew that it was a bookstore, and he was not interested, so he took a copy and muttered in his mouth: "Journey to the West"? I think I've heard this name somewhere, huh? Isn't this what the golden champion Wei Zaode wrote? ”

"You also know "Journey to the West"?" Shen Liang was a little surprised.

However, how did this "Journey to the West" become a book written by Wei Zaode, it seems that there was a problem in which link.

How did Shen Liang know that Jia Yun found a group of small flowers in Shenjing City yesterday, gave them some copper coins, and asked them to send the advertising words printed with Wei Zaode's name.

Don't say it, these catchy advertising words are very powerful, and ordinary people know that the "Yuxiang Bookstore" in Dongcheng is about to release a book called "Journey to the West".

It's just that Wei Zaode's fame is too great, and many people who don't know it spread it as "Journey to the West" written by Wei Zaode, which will be released in Yuxiang Bookstore.

"Hey! This old boy is very good at taking advantage! Shen Liang touched his chin, "No matter, let's sell the book first, anyway, there is the author's name on the title page of this book." ”

Hua Zifang asked: "Second Master Bao, what is the price of this "Journey to the West"?" ”

Shen Liang said without hesitation: "500 Wen." ”

Hua Zifang felt as if she had seen a ghost, thinking that she had heard something wrong, and asked again.

Shen Liang said impatiently: "500 Wen!" ”

"Brother Bao, are you crazy about money? Just such a broken book, selling for 500 articles? Half a tael of silver! ”

Xue Pan said.

Not only did Xue Pan think Shen Liang was crazy, but even Hua Zifang's brothers and sisters also thought Shen Liang was crazy.

Shen Liang looked at the incredulous gazes of several people and said with a smile: "Is 500 Wen very expensive?" This is a book endorsed by Zhuangyuanlang, don't you know what celebrity endorsement means, when the time comes, it is not those poor people who buy books and break one penny into two pennies to spend, do you think those who read books, who can't take out 500 yuan? ”

Hua Zifang hesitated for a moment and said, "Second Master Bao, even if it is a book endorsed by the champion, if it sells for 500 Wen, it is too expensive." ”

Hua Zifang worked as an apprentice in the bookkeeper in Nancheng, and it was only four or five hundred yuan a month, sometimes less.

Moreover, a stone of brown rice is only two or two dollars, and five hundred wen can buy almost half a stone of brown rice.

One stone is between 100 catties and 150 catties.

In this era, the price of oil is seventy or eighty wen per catty, and if it is 500 wen, it is enough for an ordinary person's living expenses for a month.

Shen Liang said: "500 Wen is really not expensive, you don't underestimate the power of knowledge, in addition, the quality of my book is excellent, I dare to guarantee that those people buy the first book, and they will buy the second and third books, and you will not understand the pain of breaking off." ”

The Great Zhou Dynasty was rich in the people, and this people were not bitter people facing the loess with their backs to the sky, but a powerful middle class.

For example, some skilled craftsmen, low-level officials, and small traders.

They are the main force of consumption.

As for the peasants who plow food in the field, you mean that they will not take 500 wen out to buy a popular novel.

So Shen Liang's sales target at the beginning was not those people.